More to the point is making it exceedingly clear the breadth and sustained nature of the malpracticing. No longer a conspiracy theory. The defenders would have to say, “Yeah, but the righties deserved it. No other way to protect democracy.”, which is a switch from, “It never happened.”

Go troll somewhere else.

But here’s the thing: now that the precedent has been set, the Democrats are going to do it as long as they think they can get away with it.

Remember, to a leftist, it’s never the policy that’s wrong, only the implementation. It wasn’t that the went after Trump, it’s that they didn’t do it fast enough, or hard enough, or in the right venues. They’ll do it again. And again. And again.

Because they know that the right won’t retaliate in kind. We’re “above” all that right? We’re better than that right? We can just point at them and say “shame on you” and all will be well right?

Except the left will elect the most egregiously unfit and or corrupt individuals in the world without a second thought. Publicizing their behavior isn’t going to stop them…that’s the same as no consequences at all. They got away with it…so they’ll do it again.

Next time they may be successful and get a court to put their opponent in jail and maybe even get them disqualified from the ballot. Then they win by default and can change the rules to make it even easier for them to do it in the future.

Letting them get away with blatantly attempting to undermine our Republic in this way is a recipe for disaster, in my humble opinion.

We need to hold our noses and play by the same (dirty) rules that they play by. The only way to keep them from engaging in dirty tricks is to ensure they fear the consequences.

If we let them get away with it scot-free – they won’t fear the consequences. And the next time, they may be better at it.

And also a testament to the power of information sharing. Greg Lukianoff briefly discusses the importance of the rise of universally available knowledge and its political implications in the following essay (H/T Instapundit):

. . . all the printing press really did was bring more people into the global conversation — not hundreds of millions, mind you, just millions — and dramatically increased the velocity of that conversation.

[snip]

And once millions of extra eyes and minds started scrutinizing the authorities of the day, they realized a lot of what people thought was true didn’t hold up to that scrutiny. Its leaders suddenly didn’t look so great anymore . . .

The velocity of the conversation — now exponentially increased from the printing press to internet. And as always such sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Link: https://eternallyradicalidea.com/p/institutional-decay-henry-viiis-big

–T

Quite so.

Examples must be made, but not the pedal-to-the-metal efforts Dems made to personally humiliate, ruin and imprison the objects of their ire.

If Trump had had all his wealth stripped away and been frogmarched into prison for life, that would have been just fine for Democrats.

It’s a testament to the American system and the American people that that didn’t happen.

https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1885016912305832068?mx=2

At the 5:30 mark. But watch the whole thing.

I agree, and yet if there are no repurcussions for such behavior there is no disincentive to stop it. I do not think it unreasonable to hold primary players responsible. It seems that Milley might prove to be such an example.